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Ammannia salicifolia

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Name

Identification
Ammannia aegyptiaca W. [family LYTHRACEAE ] (stored under name); Ammannia glauca Wall. [family LYTHRACEAE ] Ammannia salicifolia Monti [family LYTHRACEAE ] Verified by W.P.H., Cornelia verticillata Ard. [family LYTHRACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cornelia verticillata
  • Ammannia glauca
  • Ammannia aegyptiaca
  • Ammannia salicifolia

Flora

Entry for AMMANNIA salicifolia Monti [family LYTHRACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 464, (1871) Author: (By Mr. J. G. Baker.)
Names
AMMANNIA salicifolia Monti [family LYTHRACEAE], in Comment. Bonon. i. 112, cum tab. (1767).
AMMANNIA ægyptiaca Willd. [family LYTHRACEAE], Hort. Berol. t. 6.
AMMANNIA verticillata Lam. [family LYTHRACEAE], Illust. 1554, t. 77, f. 3.
AMMANNIA glauca Wall. [family LYTHRACEAE], Cat. 2100.
Information
Glabrous annual, 4–18 in. high. Stem erect, terete at base, with long quadrangular spreading branches. Leaves lanceolate, narrowing gently from above middle towards base, sessile, sometimes auricled at base, not amplexicaul, opposite, patent at the flowering parts deflected at the fruiting parts, 1-veined, 1/2–1 1/2 in. long. Flowers in axillary sessile cymes with very short pedicels, densely verticilled especially in fruit, 4–9 in each axil. Calyx with a short four-cornered spreading limb at top of a tube campanulate in flower and hemispherical in fruit; lobes of calyx 4, deltoid, incurved in flower, usually with short patent cornua. Petals wanting or caducous. Stamens 4, not exceeding the calyx, arising from near the base of its tube. Ovary when young obovoid, with 4 external longitudinal lines; style very short. Capsule 1-celled. Seeds attached to a placenta which in middle of capsule is compressed horizontally in a peltate manner and at top and bottom consists of a central axis, somewhat triangular in outline, concave, very minutely punctate.
Range
Grows by river banks and in marshes. Extends to India, and is naturalized in Italy.
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea Chr. Smith!Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo, 2400–3800 ft. alt., Mossamedes, Dr. Welwitsch!Abyssinia Nile Land Ehrenberg!Nubia Nile Land Dr. Bromfield!

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